PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Prestwich_Blue]

While I don't doubt that there are rogue football players, they aren't playing for the top premier league clubs.

We had one. A big gambler who accumulated debts owed to some very dodgy people. City were convinced he was match-fixing and even went to the police. It's absolutely not just lower league players.

 

[Paladin]

We had one. A big gambler who accumulated debts owed to some very dodgy people. City were convinced he was match-fixing and even went to the police. It's absolutely not just lower league players.

Hmmm. An which player could this have been?

 

[Chris in London]

Hmmm. A which player could this have been?

A big player or a diddy one?

 

[Corky]

While I don't doubt that there are rogue football players, they aren't playing for the top premier league clubs.
Presumably the motive for being a rogue player would be financial in the form of gifting a goal in exchange for cash to help with a bet.
How much money would need to be offered to a player on 150k a week to do that? Answer is a damn site more than it would a player in league 2 on a couple of grand a week. The odds are no better for Premier league games than they are league 2 so they could win the same money betting on 2 crap teams and it would cost a lot less bribe money.

You can't bet a lot of money on a league 2 game without the bookies getting suspicious, as very little normally gets bet on the games. Unusual betting patterns and they don't pay out.

 

[Damanino]

there are certainly a lot of things happening these days in the background. suddenly owners leaving or looking for a way out at United, Pool , spurs maybe, Chelsea just changed owners, Newcastle recently too, white paper government thingy (still no idea this is actually something good or just a white toilet paper coming from the horrible UK government), Webb replacing Riley and trying to change things but for him to change things would mean he has to tell his refs to stop holding City back, which is the last thing he would tell them. so he apologizing to Brentford and Arsenal, wonder if he will do it every round to City as well. he did say if another Rashford/Fernandes type goal happens it will be offside most likely given "what the people in the game expect from us and we want to listen to them."
unless it happens against vs City.
then PL throws the kitchen sink at us with the 100+ charges, we are getting ready to a huge legal fight, Pep going berserk at presser with a message to watch your back, anyone can be accused from now on, it is now a minefield rivals are walking down on...

chaotic times overall in multiple fronts, not even just in PL, PSG not far off from imploding imo as a sporting project, Juventus cooking the books while other clubs doing similar "plusvalenza" magic tricks not investigated, or this latest Barcelona referee payments stuff where Tebas interestingly nowhere near as loud as he used to be when commenting on City...

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

We had one. A big gambler who accumulated debts owed to some very dodgy people. City were convinced he was match-fixing and even went to the police. It's absolutely not just lower league players.

Based on my recollection of players playing so shit as to defy belief, I’ve narrowed it down to about 50 players in the period 1995-2005. Am I in the ball park?

 

[bluealf]

Based on my recollection of players playing so shit as to defy belief, I’ve narrowed it down to about 50 players in the period 1995-2005. Am I in the ball park?

He wasn't shit, they have hinted and hinted before but won't name him or the actual proof.
He is their #1 target for match fixing.

 

[cheekybids]

Based on my recollection of players playing so shit as to defy belief, I’ve narrowed it down to about 50 players in the period 1995-2005. Am I in the ball park?

Gerry Creaney

Attitude, Piss’ed, Fat, Lazy, Twat

I suppose it could have been something else as well.

 

[Corky]

Hamman got in trouble betting but managed to pull himself out of trouble that weekend with a win on VJ Singh. He wrote about it in the racing post.

 

[Manchester_City_Blue]

This one does seem ludicrous as Stones ( When fit ) has had some match winning performances for us. He did make a lot of glaring mistakes though in his early days, some shockers, but Walker has had a few of those too.

The big point here. Why would've have cleared that scouse goal off the line. We all thought it was already in but John put everything into clearing that.